Jorian Engelbrektsson – World’s Greatest Pinball Player for 2014!
The IFPA is proud to announce that [player]Jorian Engelbrektsson[/player] has finished at #1 on the World Pinball Player Rankings, thus earning IFPA's top honor as the 2014 "World's Greatest Pinball Player". No single tournament victory will ever secure this title for a given year. Only consistent play at the highest level over the course of multiple years leads to players reaching the pinnacle of the World Pinball Player Rankings. This is the 2nd time that Jorian has been crowned the World's Greatest Pinball Player, having earned it back in 2009 as well.
While Jorian's greatest achievement of 2014 was being crowned World Pinball Champion at IFPA11 in Denver, it was actually his 6th place finish in the Swedish Championships in November that pushed Jorian ahead of [player]Keith Elwin[/player] for the top spot. It was the closest race for the World’s Greatest Pinball Player title in IFPA history (7.58 WPPR points, besting last year’s tight race of 7.92 WPPR points between Keith and [player]Zach Sharpe[/player]). Besides his win at IFPA11, Jorian earned victories at the Danish Pinball Open, Pinball Expo Flip Out Tournament, Stockholm Open, Pre-IFPA Pinball Tournament at 1Up Lodo, Lyons Pinball Spring Classic and the Pre-Pinburgh Tournament at Doublewide Grill.
Overall, Jorian won 37% of the events he played in, while placing in the top 4 at 56% of his 2014 events, a truly remarkable achievement. Jorian will be given his award at the IFPA12 World Pinball Championship, scheduled for May 22-24, 2015 in Borås, Sweden. Congratulations to Jorian, and best of luck to everyone on the upcoming 2015 season in the race for #1.
No doubt.
Rich get richer in the new system. Players outside of the top 100 stand to gain maybe 6-7 points from additional listings allowed in the calculated score…meanwhile the top 20 will gain up to about 74 points in Jorian’s case. Ouch. That, combined with the fact that the vast majority of tourneys will no longer be worth even 25 points means it will be next to impossible for anyone but frequent PAPA circuit attendees to even think about busting the top 50.
Can’t agree with that synopsis JT… watch things unfold, then re-evaluate. I’m sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised 🙂
Also, (the real reason I clicked comments…)
Yay JOE!! Holy cow he had a crushinating year!
Wins, wins, everywhere! I like the multi-wins on trips overseas too… madness 🙂
Crushed it like Thomka